Mark Twain Quotes

I go with what I know and what I see, and I believe in reality.

Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

A theory must be tempered with reality.

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

Science is true, whether you believe it or not.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

You must look at facts, because they look at you.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

On Pragmatism: It's all very well in theory but it doesn't work in practice

Practical knowledge of what works and what doesn't work is much better. Theoretical knowledge is important, but I think practical knowledge works better.

Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

I would stand upon facts.

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

Life is so unlike theory.

Seek truth from facts.